Printer&#39;s case.



PATENTED NOV. 3, 1903,

H. P. HAMILTON. PRINTERS CASE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented November 3, 1903.

'ATENT FFICE;

HENRY P. HAMILTON, OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE HAMILTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF TWO RIVERS,

VISOONSIN.

PRINTERS CASE.

SLE'PE(JIFICAELIOLN forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,862, dated November 3, 1903.

Application filed December 19, 1902. Serial No. 135,846. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LHENRY P. HAMILTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Two Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Cases; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to that class of printers cases which are technically known as cap-cases, which are designed chiefly for holding the type of the capital letters and small caps 5 and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement of the type-boxes, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of one of my improved cases; and Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal sectional view thereof, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Heretofore in the cap-cases in common use all of the type-holding compartments have been of equal size, ordinarily with seven rows of seven square compartments each on each side of a central division-strip, making ninetyeight equal compartments in all, the capitalletter type occupying the four lower horizontal rows of compartments on the right and the small-cap type corresponding rows of compartments on the left of the said central divisionstrip, the remaining three upper rows of compartments being used for miscellaneous and less frequently-used type, such as fractions, diphthongs, commercial-marks, asterisks and other reference marks, and other least-used or odd characters. These cap-cases, or upper cases as they are sometimes called, are placed when in use at the top of the frame holding the type-cases and at an inclination of about forty-five degrees, and it is a common practice for printers to place their copy on this case, which requires that the same be lifted from time to time to get at the type-beneath. By reason of making all the compartments of equal size some of them will be overflowing with type and others have perhaps less than half a dozen type in them, this being a serious inconvenience with the ordinary cap-cases in common use, which I have sought to remedy by my improved case.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 and 2 represent the end pieces, and 3 and 4 the top and bottom pieces, of the rectangular frame of the case, and 5 the bottom, all of any usual or desired construction. Parallel with top piece 3 and rising from the bottom to the same height therewith is the longitudinal division-strip 6, extending from end to end of the case, there being a short central transverse division-strip 7 between the top piece 3 and the strip 6, there being fourteen typeholding compartments on each side of the strip 7, arranged in two horizontal rows of seven compartments each, making in all twenty-eight of these compartments (marked 8 8) above the strip 6, these being designed to hold the small-cap type and herein designated as the small-cap or medium compartments.

9 and 10 designate transverse divisionstrips extending between the strip 6 and the bottom piece 4, the strip 9 being at the left and the strip 10 at the right of the transverse central line of the casethat is, of the line of the strip 7-the strips 6, 7, 9, and 10 all rising to the same height-that is, to the plane of the frame-pieces 1, 2, and 3. Between the end piece 1 and strip 9 there are shown four longitudinal rows of three compartments each, and between the strip 10 and end piece 2 there are shown four longitudinal rows of four compartments. Each of these compartments (marked 11 11 11) are designed for holding the capital-letter type and are all of equal size. These compartments 11 11 11, herein shown at the left-hand and righthand of the case below the line of the strip 6 are designated the capital or large compartments.

The remaining portion of the case between the transverse strips 9 10 and the longitudinal strip 6 and bottom piece 2 is divided into six longitudinal rows of seven compartments each, (marked 14 14 14,) making forty-two compartments, which are of equal size and smaller than any other compartments and which are designed for the miscellaneous or odd characters hereinbefore referred to, and hence designated the odd or small comused type or characters, and the prior almost partments. The space devoted thereto is conveniently located for the reception of the compositors copy, which from the nature of the type in the compartments beneath requires to be less frequentlylifted or disturbed than if it covered part of the capital and small-cap compartments, as in the ordinary cap-cases in general use, and therefore my improved cap-cases will be found of much greater convenience than the old-style case just named, where no difierence in the size or grouping of the compartments was made between those for the least-used and the mostuniversal annoyance of overflow cap-boxes resulting therefrom is wholly obviated.

The relative arrangement of the capital or large compartments and the odd or small compartments, as shown and described, may be varied, if desired, in any particular instance by placing the group of small compartments 14 14 at the left of the case and all of the large compartments 11 11 at the right of the case in four longitudinal rows of seven equal large compartments each without departing from the spirit of my invention, as in either case the compartments 8 8 for the small-cap type would be at the top of the case above the other sets of compartments ll 11 and 14 14 and with the compartments l4 1- in the lower or front part of the case in a convenient location for the reception of the compositors copy, as described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A printers case, having a rectangular frame, and closed bottom and formed with compartments of three sizes only, small, medium and large, by cross-strips, the mediumsized compartments occupying two parallel rows extending the entire length of the case,

sion-strip and the balance of the case being divided by two transverse division-strips, all of the division-strips rising to the height of the top and side pieces of the said rectangular frame, and above the height of the crossstrips which form the said compartments, the small compartments being all of equal size, and arranged between the said transverse division-strips, and the large compartments being all of equal size and arranged in two groups at the right and left side of the lower part of the case.

2. A printers case, having a rectangular frame, and closed bottom, and formed with compartments of three sizes only, small, medium, and large, by permanent cross-strips, the medium-sized compartments occupying two parallel rows extending the entire length of the case, at thetop, said compartments in each of said two rows being of equal size, and the balance of the case being divided into sets of the large compartments all of equal size, and the small compartments all of equal size, the sets of the said small, medium, and large compartments being separated by divisionstrips rising to the height of the top and side pieces of the said rectangular frame, and above the height of the cross-strips which form the compartments.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Two Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY P. HAMILTON.

Witnesses:

H. O. GOWRAN, A. H. LOHMAN. 

